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Challenge, especially for speak e of the house. reporter: also backing mccarthy, incoming republican mike lawler who won one of four key gop races in new york, likely enough to secure the majority. i fully support kevin mccarthy and will support him for speaker. reporter: yet mccarthy can only afford to lose a handful of gop votes to win the 218 he needs in january to become speaker. and arizona s andy bigs is considering a challenge to deny him the votes. in the senate, an even bigger gop debacle after democrats retain the majority and could add a seat after next month the s runoff in georgia. the red wave proved to be a red mirage. reporter: senate gop leader mitch mcconnell facing backlash from some conservatives who want to hit the brakes on this wednesday s leadership elections. it would be insane if we reelect the same leadership two days from now. trump is blaming mcconnell, ....
That they think that the chinese government thinks that they are acting forcefully and, you know, with muscle honestly, if they ignored it, they would seem stronger than their hissy fit seems to be. sure, sure, but this is an issue of face and vulnerability, and if you are president xi, and one of the strongest leaders in modern china, this is rubbing your nose in it by the speak e and this is the speaker saying that i am the highest level in 25 years, and china is not only emerging, but emergent economic player global and military leader and we are telling the china, stuff it, we will do whatever we want to do, fnd you are president xi stepping back, you have to respond and you cannot sit back and say no, because this is a declaration that the u.s. has not changed the policy on china and regardless of the emergence of a new china under xi. and congresswoman, what does ....
Have already been formed. the governor formed those early on. the speak e of the house formed the speaker of the house formed them at the same time. they have been working on this. we have baseline information we can report to the legislature, help them basically make decisions about systemic failures. i think each community can look at the things we have laid out in this report and make some determinations on how to prevent that from happening. i will tell you not i am brian and for john scott. a tax texas committee on the horrific may 24 the elementary school at uvalde. let s listen in. [inaudible] ....
And what his plans were. the devil is in the details. unfortunately we didn t get enough details. he did humanize himself. marry catherine there were a parade of speak e ers, condoleezzaa rice, nikki haley, it goes on and on and you think mitt romney would do well, and that the g.o.p. party would do ver well with women voters. take look at this poll. president obama 48% among women voters. mitt romney 42%. why doesn t romney do better with women? i think what he did last night was try to humanize himself. what the republican party is looking for to close the gender gap, everybody knows you have to close it a little bit to get a presidential win is for a passport to be heard by women voters. i think that was what the line up of very dynamic, very good women speakers, many of them take being the national stage for the first time and being ....
Press about gingrich. saying that newt gingrich is a lobbyist is just a matter-of-fact. he indicates that he doesn t fall within the narrow definition of lobbyist that he might have in mind but if you re working for a company getting paid for a company through one of your many entities and you re speaking with congressmen in a way that would help that company, that s lobbying. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. reporter: very tough stuff from mitt romney who in five consecutive appearance necessa appearances in florida has attacked him as speak e of the house. he said gingrich was forced to resign in disgrace. reminding folks that 88% of house republicans voted to ....